Lietzenlieder

Uwe Kolbe is a searcher. His exploration of thoughts and memories in his sonnets and free verse is both playful and sensual. He uses comparisons and associations to approach questions of home and biography, and to consider landscapes and people in the USA and Brandenburg. He ventures into the field of language, finding its easy and difficult aspects, and always revealing something surprising. His new collection proves once again that he is both an expert on poetic traditions, and a confident shaper of language.

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 26.09.2012
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-040222-6
  • 112 Pages
  • Author: Uwe Kolbe
Buchcover von Lietzenlieder: Gedichte
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Uwe Kolbe

Uwe Kolbe, born in East Berlin in 1957, moved to Hamburg in 1988 and now lives in Dresden. Since 2007, he has been a poet in residence in the US several times. He has been awarded the Villa Massimo Scholarship, the Preis der Literaturhäuser, the Heinrich Mann Prize and the Meran Poetry Prize for his work. S. Fischer Verlag recently published the following: the novel Die Lüge (2014), the essay Brecht. Rollenmodell eines Dichters (2016) as well as the poetry collections Lietzenlieder (2012), Gegenreden (2015) and Psalmen (2017).